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American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other.
That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.
We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.
The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.
If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.
The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.
The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.
American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
How often have we seen politicians take a principle position only to give it up three days later? That is what makes democracy so fascinating.
Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.
Democracy demands trust. It demands that sense of mutual understanding. And - it's a two way street. You've got to give - as much as you take.
Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.
A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.
Different generations and people of different ethnic origins have different views on China. But they all agree on one thing. That is democracy.
Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.
We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!
We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.
If an individual agrees with everybody, he lacks conviction; if he likes everybody and is everybody's friend, he is indifferent to one and all.
You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
Hong Kong is not just a global financial center. It's also a place with a lot of teens and youth who love freedom, democracy, and human rights.
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left.
To say Donald Trump would be a disaster for our country, our democracy, and our future would be doing a grave disservice to the word 'disaster.'
Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.
In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet.
Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
Since 1990, we have been building up the idea that democracy is the best way for sectors that feel socially excluded from politics to win power.
This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
I'm going to try and make people realize that in order to live the life they are living, they need to have democracy, and it's being threatened.
Our model of politics is one that it is inclusive of all members of the society; all should be represented. That is the nature of our democracy.
Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.
If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.
No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.
The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.
I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.
Jan Bhagidari is the biggest asset of a democracy. We are increasing it through MyGov, letters from citizens, Mann Ki Baat and other initiatives.
Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.
You do not keep American democracy in suspense. Because, look, too many people have marched and protested and fought and died for this democracy.
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.
The cornerstone of our policy in that part of the world is to help democracies. Lebanon's a democracy. We want the Siniora government to succeed.
The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.
There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.
It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.